Leadership

Valerie Daggett, PhD

Valerie Daggett, PhD

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

AltPep is a spinout from Dr. Daggett’s University of Washington Lab in the Department of Bioengineering in the School of Medicine and College of Engineering. She has 30+ years research experience focused on protein folding, misfolding and disease. Dr. Daggett’s lab developed methods for simulations of protein conformational changes, performed the first such studies in the amyloid field and in so doing discovered the novel protein structure associated with toxicity that forms the basis of AltPep’s platform. Dr. Daggett holds a BA from Reed College, PhD from the University of California, San Francisco, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.

Patrik Edenholm, JD, MA

Patrik Edenholm, JD, MA

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Patrik has extensive background in Intellectual Property transactions having closed over 200 deals as head of Siembra Law and Consulting LLC. He also founded of two technology startups, including Ansel Communications, the fastest growing private Washington company in 1996.

Kurt Becker, JD

Kurt Becker, JD

CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER

Kurt is the Principal at Fulcrum Legal Services. He was formerly Chief Counsel for Outbound Contracts at Intellectual Ventures. Previously Kurt was a partner at Perkins Coie. His focus is on intellectual property, and technology licensing and transactions.

Charles Horne, MBA

Charles Horne, MBA

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Chuck previously held executive and managerial roles in tech companies such as Dell Computer and Silicon Graphics, and was part of the executive team that turned around Safeco Corporation. In recent years he’s invested, advised, and served as CFO in startup companies before joining AltPep.

Gil Block, MD, PhD

Gil Block, MD, PhD

CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER

Dr. Block has 33 years of experience in the pharma/biotech fields leading clinical development of drugs for a broad range of neurological indications, including Alzheimer’s Disease. He was at Merck for 14 years as Senior Director and Head of Clinical Neuropharmacology. Later he was the Executive Director, US Drug Development/Global Medicine & Science, at AstraZeneca. He has expertise ranging from preclinical and clinical translation, clinic development in all phases, to marketing approval.

Nancy Hill, MBA

Nancy Hill, MBA

CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER

Nancy has a track record of building and growing innovation-driven life science companies.  With extensive experience in biopharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics companies and strengths in product development, commercialization and operations, she has built global businesses leading to multiple successful exits. Most recently, Nancy was Executive Vice President of Operations and Program Management at Adaptive Biotechnologies and a member of the core executive team that grew the company from early start-up through IPO to a multi-billion dollar peak market cap. Nancy is also President of the Seattle Chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association.